March 16, 2005

Lessig says 'never again' to copyright demons

In a slightly related development reported by Adam, doyen of the anti-copyright revolution, Lawrence Lessig has said he won't distribute his work any more unless under a decent sharing licence. Hear hear! I would like to do the same; and would encourage the various publishers to get with the programme.

Lessig chooses the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial licence as his line in the sand. I'll think about that. I have a paper that is now ready to consider the wider peer review - the Pareto-secure one. Maybe it's time to test these theories with real words and works.

Personally I've chosen to put all my works into the public domain. I figure that the U.S. congresscritters will continue to extend copyright terms indefinitely (along the lines of the Sonny Bono Copyright Terms Extension Act of 1998), so if I don't put my works into the public domain, no one will.